small screen's chak de-article

Taking inspiration from Shah Rukh Khan's Chak De, SAB's Left Right Left recently roped in a few real hockey players for a couple of episodes. In the show, one of the cadets, Pooja Ghai played by Gazal Rai, has been shown to be a hockey player from the beginning. After leaving the Academy, she realises hockey is her first love.For her the hockey ground becomes a battlefield. She stands up against the coach's defaming girl players and trains the girls. The players in the episode are University and State-level players from St Andrews College, MMK and Khalsa College. The coach Surinder Pal teaches at Sacred Boys' High School since the last 15 years and has trained and produced 15 state-level players. "It was an amazing experience. It was a little funny because I had no idea about anything to do with hockey and had asked the girls to teach me the basics. But on screen they had to pretend they were learning from me. Those girls were really co-operative and we had a lot of fun on the sets," says Gazal Rai.